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benedict xvi, who he says is very ill. the vatican says benedict's condition has worsened in recent hours. you are watching bbc news. here's weather world. this time on weather world, we are at raf coningsby which set the uk's highest temperature record this summer during our hottest heatwave. and i will be finding out what it was like that day and how heat and other severe weather affects operations here. i am here at the uk's national meteorological archive and i will be finding out how that new record temperature and all weather observations are used to paint a picture of the uk a...

blistering heatwaves. we'll get reaction. hello and welcome. italy has become the first european country to order covid tests for visitors from china, after concern at the rapid rise in chinese infections. earlier, taiwan said it would introduce a similar scheme. japan and india have already ordered travellers from china to be monitored. the us could follow. there's concern travellers could bring new variants of the disease — now that beijing is lifting travel restrictions. our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, reports. from the world's most populous nation, alarming scenes. ch...

spurs lose to aston villa, and have now won only two of their past seven matches. good morning. and happy new year. today is a cold start for many. it will be a sunny one when we lose the showers. the outlook for the rest of the week remains fairly changeable. details later in the programme. good morning. it's monday, january 2nd. senior doctors are warning that some a&e departments are in a "complete state of crisis" because of the extreme pressures facing the nhs this winter. the royal college of emergency medicine says it's impossible to provide the best standard of care, and ther...

Cold snap predicted for week ahead as February takes a chilly turn

News round-up from Northern Ireland - 03 January 2024